FWIW, my 5(+/-) year old COBY stand alone player has a PAL/NTSC switch that controls the OUTPUT independently of the DVD format! Don't know about the region BS.
Thanks JK At 10:15 PM 12/7/2012, you wrote: >For bimonthly movie night, my wife and I watched "Absurdistan". >The title is apt. Director Veit Helmer recently made "Baikonur", >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iK464i6tzw >a drama filmed at the active Kazakh/Russian launch center, which >I would like to see. Amazon sells the DVD for PAL region 2, >which is incompatable with my Hollywood-infested DVD player. > >Will a PAL region 2 disk play using Linux DVD player software? >Will the English subtitles display? I'm guessing this can be >set up with a lot of effort, but many tweaks may be needed, >and frame-rate incompatabilities leading to ugly video. > >Keith > >-- >Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 >_______________________________________________ >PLUG mailing list >PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug